shot

There will be very little detail visible in the shot, as it is meant to give a general impression rather than specific information.The long shot is used to set the scene in a film.…

Student himself was shot and taken out of action for years.Only in the south, defenses broke but the one passage over the river Maas at Rotterdam was held by the Dutch.…

Another project he worked on was Filming The Trial, the second in a proposed series of documentaries examining his feature films.While much was shot for these projects, none of them was completed.…

He was replaced in the scenes remaining to be shot with a double.The film cost slightly less than $1 million and just about broke even.…

Sporadic land sightings continued until 1963, when film of the creature was shot in the loch from a distance of 4 kilometres.Because of the distance at which it was shot, it has been described as poor quality.In 1938, Inverness-shire Chief Constable William Fraser wrote a letter stating that it was beyond doubt the monster existed.…

Down there you have to play with your teeth or else you get shot.

The object of the game is to outscore one's opponents by throwing the ball through the opponents' basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own.An attempt to score in this way is called a shot.A successful shot is worth two points, or three points if it is taken from beyond the three-point arc which is from the basket in international games and in NBA games.…

John Sr. was able to grab a .22 caliber revolver from a rear bedroom.He then was forced to shoot and kill his daughter and son-in-law.Josephine was transported to UPMC Altoona where she was pronounced dead.…

They were a little bit of additional footage.We wanted to shoot a fight scene at the end of the movie.It was the product of something we discovered editing the movie, not previewing it.…

His only English-speaking film was a great challenge for Truffaut, because he barely spoke English himself.This was also his first film shot in color.The larger scale production was difficult for Truffaut, who had worked only with small crews and budgets.…

The weekly free newspaper The Tameside Advertiser was established in 1979 and is now owned by Trinity Mirror and distributed throughout Stalybridge.The town has been used for location shoots for various film and television series.The most notable of these was the John Schlesinger film Yanks which featured Richard Gere and was released in 1979.…

On the second day, the Red Cross sent in workers to collect the dead.As soon as they entered, the workers were shot by the prisoners, who killed one.The Northern Alliance repeatedly bombarded the area with RPG and grenade attacks, and set alight fuel it poured in.…

The board was also upset by the racy opening, so Hitchcock said that if they let him keep the shower scene he would re-shoot the opening with them on the set.Since they did not show up for the re-shoot, the opening stayed.Another cause of concern for the censors was that Marion was shown flushing a toilet, with its contents (torn-up note paper) fully visible.…

They closed all the businesses in the town and let no food in for a week.In addition they shot dead three local people.On 14 November, the Tans were suspected of abducting and murdering a Roman Catholic priest, Fr.…

Failure to release the ball before the feet return to the floor is considered a traveling violation.Another common shot is called the lay-up.This shot requires the player to be in motion toward the basket, and to "lay" the ball "up" and into the basket, typically off the backboard (the backboard-free, underhand version is called a finger roll).…

Beginning in the 2005-06 season, if the game is still tied at the end of overtime, the game enters a shootout.Three players for each team in turn take a penalty shot.The team with the most goals during the three-round shootout wins the game.…

In some parts of Latin America, especially South America, the 1 ball often must be pocketed in the right side pocket (relative to the end of the table one breaks from), and the 15 ball must be pocketed in the other side pocket (left).This rule probably developed to make it harder to run out after the first shot.Position play takes a larger role in this variation, and a player's strategy must necessarily initially revolve around getting the 1 or 15 in and preventing this opponent from doing likewise.…

In separate incidents, Bernard Hammermeister and Heironimus' relatives (mother Opal and nephew John Miller) claim to have seen an ape suit in Heironimus' car.The relatives say they saw the suit two days after the film was shot.…

The second was that the shot would spread too quickly providing a very limited effective zone.Offset chokes, where the pattern is intentionally slightly off of center, are used to change the point of impact.…

In the first shot, an elderly couple is outside an art exhibition having lunch and then follow other people inside through the door.The second shot shows what they do inside.…

Synonyms of
shot

Meaning of
shot

nounA solid missile discharged from a firearm→
the shot buzzed past his ear

nounA chance to do something→
he wanted a shot at the champion

nounA person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)→
he is a crack shot,
a poor shooter

nounAn aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect→
his parting shot was `drop dead',
she threw shafts of sarcasm,
she takes a dig at me every chance she gets

nounSports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put→
he trained at putting the shot

nounAn explosive charge used in blasting

nounA blow hard enough to cause injury→
he is still recovering from a shot to his leg,
I caught him with a solid shot to the chin

nounAn attempt to score in a game

nounInformal words for any attempt or effort→
he gave it his best shot,
he took a stab at forecasting

verbHit with a missile from a weapon

verbKill by firing a missile

verbSend forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly→
shoot a glance

verbThrow or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective→
shoot craps,
shoot a golf ball

verbEmit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully→
The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth

verbCause a sharp and sudden pain in→
The pain shot up her leg

verbVariegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors→
shoot cloth